The trouble is Eddie, as I'm sure Pete Seeger would be the first to agree, is that the situation is *not* the same.

During the Vietnam War people took to the streets in their thousands, in the US, and elsewhere. The radio blared out songs of protest. There were rallies in the park, attended by the top names in folk music. The music played a big part in bringing about the end of that war, because it united people. It woke them up and gave them something to aim for.

The Washington Peace March


But, where is the music now?

Where are the protests?

Where are those voices now?

Where are the people?

Where are the songs, on mainstream radio?

Where are the placards?

Where are the TV crews?

Apart from a few *small* protests, most of which are never reported on, there is just The Sound of Silence.

And yet, as so many of us on here know, the songs ARE still out here, still being written, but they are lying dormant, unable to do their job, because mainstream TV and Radio have now become so controlled, so fearful of kicking out against 'The Rules' that those songs and songwriters are barely ever heard.

Pete Seeger, in all his near on 90 years has never given up, or given in, and I'm sure he won't, until his dying breath..and even then he'll no doubt be doing all he can, from above.   

This is not about the Powers That Be, it is about all of *us*. It is about how nations of people have switched off, almost deliberately been switched off, *allowed* themselves to be switched off, by those who want populations who no longer question, or take to the streets.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"What do you tell forever's children, when it's their turn to hurt and heal....." Taken from The Potter's Wheel - Bill Danoff

We have all been silent for too long.